Word: marcheses
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This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers.
In Prayer jor the Living the Rev. J. G. ("Tired Tim") Petrie, Headmaster of St. Kentigern's School, Pitgoorlie Bay, Scotland, is the easygoing, outwardly conventional, inwardly puzzled ruler of a domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled...
Meantime devious negotiations were going on for their release, each side trying to out-Orientalize the other. At one point Manchukuoan troops attacked the bandit lair, and in the confusion the captives made their second break for freedom. But they were all caught before they had gone far. As the...
When Wade runs for governor a disgruntled underling (Thomas Jackson) threatens to expose his wife as the onetime mistress of Gambler Gallagher. When Gallagher coolly kills the would-be tattler, righteous District Attorney Wade gets him convicted, goes triumphantly to Albany as governor. Gallagher refuses his offer to commute the...
The epic portion of Viva Villa arrives when Sykes, the U. S. newspaperman, arrives to tell Villa that Pascal, whom Villa hates, has killed little Madero, whom Villa loves. Villa borrows $7 from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without...